| • | Six. |
| • | A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc. |
| • | Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish. |
| • | To cover with size; to prepare with size. |
| • | A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. |
| • | An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford. |
| • | Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock. |
| • | Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size. |
| • | A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale. |
| • | An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls. |
| • | To fix the standard of. |
| • | To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk. |
| • | To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature. |
| • | To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts. |
| • | To swell; to increase the bulk of. |
| • | To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting. |
| • | To take greater size; to increase in size. |
| • | To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book. |
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